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J.J. Abrams Reacts To Death of Star Trek Actor Anton 'Chekov' Yelchin (hollywoodreporter.com)
On Sunday morning 27-year-old actor Anton Yelchin, who plays Chekov in the new Star Trek movies, was killed in a freak accident with his own car in the driveway of his home in Studio City. "It appears he momentarily exited his car and it rolled backward, causing trauma that led to his death," a police spokesperson told the Hollywood Reporter. This afternoon J. J. Abrams tweeted a picture of a handwritten eulogy addressed to Anton. "You were brilliant. You were kind. You were funny as hell, and supremely talented. And you weren't here nearly long enough. Missing you..." Zachary Quinto, who plays Mr. Spock, also tweeted a link to a picture posted in memorial on Instagram, where he called Yelchin "one of the most open and intellectually curious people I have ever had the pleasure to know... wise beyond his years, and gone before his time..."
Stephen King called him a "crazily talented actor gone too soon," remembering Yelchin from one of his last roles in a 10-episode adaptation of King's "Mr. Mercedes". Yelchin will play a mentally deranged ice cream truck driver who's also an IT worker for a Geek Squad-like company named "Cyber Patrol".
Stephen King called him a "crazily talented actor gone too soon," remembering Yelchin from one of his last roles in a 10-episode adaptation of King's "Mr. Mercedes". Yelchin will play a mentally deranged ice cream truck driver who's also an IT worker for a Geek Squad-like company named "Cyber Patrol".
I loved that commercial where he beamed into the Xfinity Innovation Center!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Oh, wait, his Trek name. Okay then. I think he was mexican, anyway.
He was brilliant.
You waited till the end of the day to post this, and only when people started suggesting you be fired. How you still have a job at Slashdot baffles me.
A very talented actor is gone, and it will not even save us from having to endure that unnecessary reboot of Star Trek. They'll probably just recast and not even bother to explain in any way. Nobody really gives a shit anymore it seems.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
"Drunk actor's vehicular negligence, which led to his own death, downplayed by media suck ups who would not be so nice if the victim wasn't a movie star."
He exited his car while it was in neutral on his steep driveway, and he got pinned between his car and the brick mailbox. This goes to show how incredibly easy it is to make one tiny mistake and pay for it with your life. If I had to guess, I would say he was trying to hop back into the car to stop it. It could have happened to any of us - in one instant, before you realize, it's too late. RIP and if anything can come of this, hopefully the rest of us can learn to take one extra moment to make sure that what we think of as a mundane, simple thing is not overlooked.
Better known as 318230.
it happened just after he made an anti-Islam comment. The "facts" here are just too unbelievable.
I almost feel bad for the niglets today. Father's day is the most confusing day of the year for nigger children. I've heard of contraceptive darts being used to control deer populations. Applying similar strategies to niggers could solve the problems that niglets face. Of course, unlike niggers, deer have the virtue of having a breeding season. Niggers breed year-round, with their main obstacle being the nine-month gestation period. However, like niggers, deer does mate with deer bucks and never see that buck again, raising their young on their own. In the same way, nigger bucks inseminate nigger hoes and vanish, leaving the nigger hoe to raise the niglets using whatever EBT monies she can scavenge. As the saying goes among white women who become entangled with nigger bucks, "Once you go black - you're a single mother!"
If we do use darts, it would take a lot of darts to realize this dream. It would also take lots of full-time jobs stalking niggers and administering the darts. This would create jobs and boost our struggling economy. Over time, less niggers would mean greatly reduced expenditures for welfare and law enforcement, creating an abundance for state and local governments. In the cities, property values would rise with fewer niggers and therefore much less nigger crime. Nigger hoes are amazingly fertile, with the greatest fertility observed in the fattest, nastiest, and most difficult to understand nigger hoes. Each administration of contraceptive would prevent the birth of at least seven future thug-lifers, with some sources citing numbers as high as fifteen.
I mean, when 7% of the population (black males) commits just over 50% of all the murders, that's a good reason to take action. Niggers are much less violent, savage, and tribal when they are not allowed to accumulate in large numbers. In fact you can measure the safety of a neighborhood solely by the proportion of niggers that live there. This is why you almost never observe gangsta shootings in rural areas - the niggers are spaced apart and kept from forming a critical mass of thuggery by the lower population density.
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See what happens when you have self-driving cars?
I wonder who he pissed off and how.
Makes no sense to assume the default explanation is true. He is dead, that is the only fact that cannot be manipulated.
My father died this week. So it makes fathers day confusing for me. He was part of the greatest generation that fought in WWII.
He didn't have much to say about people like you.
Since the Vietnam War black participation in the military has grown. Today, there are more than 2.5 million black military veterans. And African-Americans who make up more than 13 percent of the U.S. population, now account for 20 percent of those serving in the military.
I realize you are just trolling, and sometimes it's funny, just for the shock value. But it wasn't funny today. I doubt it will be funny for a long time.
Wake me up when September ends. I'll let you know.
My father died this week. So it makes fathers day confusing for me. He was part of the greatest generation that fought in WWII.
He didn't have much to say about people like you.
Since the Vietnam War black participation in the military has grown. Today, there are more than 2.5 million black military veterans. And African-Americans who make up more than 13 percent of the U.S. population, now account for 20 percent of those serving in the military.
I realize you are just trolling, and sometimes it's funny, just for the shock value. But it wasn't funny today. I doubt it will be funny for a long time.
Wake me up when September ends. I'll let you know.
Sorry your dad died but nothing posted here is about you, so it's good to have a little perspective. A Hallmark Holiday does not define your relationship with him. Nor should it.
Currently the military is a way to keep fueling the military-industrial complex which mostly involves demolishing little brown people who were never a threat to us. I'm glad some blacks are involved, it shows how equal-opportunity empires and money truly are. And who knows, maybe military service is an outlet for the blacks' savagery and propensity for violence. It's more legitimate than the Crips or Bloods, plus they have bigger guns too.
Have gnu, will travel.
We should celebrate his life and work, and take the most important reminders we can from his unnecessary death at only 27 years old. It is fitting, and not only because learning and growing and facing the evils of life with hope were always at the core of Star Trek.
There are three I see: (1) life is short and can be over at any time, (2) we should build every day on the work we leave behind, because see #1, and (3) use your parking break and never get out of your car without verifying that it is holding its own weight while your feet are no longer on the pedals.
"Seize the time, Meribor. Live now. Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again." -- Picard, The Inner Light
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My father died this week. So it makes fathers day confusing for me. He was part of the greatest generation that fought in WWII.
He didn't have much to say about people like you.
Since the Vietnam War black participation in the military has grown. Today, there are more than 2.5 million black military veterans. And African-Americans who make up more than 13 percent of the U.S. population, now account for 20 percent of those serving in the military.
I realize you are just trolling, and sometimes it's funny, just for the shock value. But it wasn't funny today. I doubt it will be funny for a long time.
Wake me up when September ends. I'll let you know.
And if you were/are a nigger, there's about an 85% chance you wouldn't have had a father to miss at all.
Yes it is a bit dark as humour goes but you have to wonder as it was the first thing that popped into me head when I read how he got killed.
I'm sorry for your loss, man.
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Wait and see what happens when your army is 20% muslim
Colour is so over rated as a divisionary point these days
Why is he dead and all of the Kardashians still alive?
Why post on twitter/facebook/instagram... they are meant for things to be forgotten in 5min. They are "5min of fame tools".
JJ, Zach... y'all are celebrities. Have a freaking press release, press statement or even take out an ad--that's called being formal and professional--something we sure Anton would want as an example in this 5min world... that would be real respect.
So they interviewed a neighbor:
"It's surprising.... That a car can hurt you in your own driveway"
Uh. It's a car...a tool, and they are dangerous by fact you need a license to operate one. And for instance, you can get seriously hurt from a horse... or a hammer, a car is no different. Know your context. That neighbor's comment sort of dismisses the context.
Though this is likely a freak accident (likely pinned him from the back--e.g. he didn't see it?), I'm seeing the "lack" of common sense in this world today from these celeb posts. Might as well put a sign-sticker saying "warning, car may roll if brake is not on" (sorry, is it TOO EARLY?).
Of all the people who could have died such a ignoble death, why wasn't it that goddamn hack JJ Abrams or the equally worthless Orci and Kurtzman?
i wish they would stop giving mod-points to morons.
Because of the "Just-world Fallacy".
Something something, nuclear wessles.
There I was, nodding along, "Yup, yup, yup" and then I came across that big racist bubo. You really are full of pus.
Your post was good read until you put race into it.
How many times has skynet gone after Sarah and/or John can failed? Looks like skynet finally figured out a better target.
...sexual congress with a nubile negress.
If only slashdot had some kind of comment rating and filtering system so you could block stupid crap like that from being seen. If it did, I would filter out the -1 ratings.
Wait and see what happens when your army is 20% muslim
Which kind? The majority of Muslims that actually follow the Quran and believe in peace, charity, and tolerance, or the few who follow hadiths and fatwas written centuries and millennia after the original text and use them to kill, buy 12 year old virgins so they can get laid, and drink and take drugs because they are probably going to be dead within the year because of the atrocities they commit and the fact that they declare jsut about everyone in the world (including the first group of Muslims) to be their enemy?
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
Sharapova was disqualified, the same about the football team. Fans were beaten up in Marseilles. Russian Olympic team was banned from Rio Olympic games. Now this... Anton Elchin was also from Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'm really not understanding what the heck Chrysler is thinking these days. A few weeks ago I rented a car with Hertz and they gave me a Chrysler 200. It has a rotary shifter. Basically it's knob you turn to shift. I hated it. But I will say that it wasn't all that hard to get the car into the right gear. I just didn't like the shifter at all. Turning a knob to shift is weird.
Wait and see what happens when your army is 20% muslim
Colour is so over rated as a divisionary point these days
Interestingly, people used to worry about the Catholics, or Papists as they were called, like they do today's Muslims. Seems, like the military survived that, too. Face it, bigotry is just a statement about how close minded and self centered we really are.
that was the saddest part...
They'll install more crescent markers (instead of crosses or stars of David) at Arlington? Other than that, I can't think of any important differences.
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
It's the Windows 8 start menu of gear shifters.
The problem with that is you can miss some good posts that get unfairly downmodded.
Most of the best posts I have seen on Slashdot were from ACs. Unfortunately, most of the worst posts are also by ACs.
Is it seriously that fucking difficult to park your vehicle in the garage or driveway where it belongs, and then walk to your mailbox?
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
It is called a parking brake, not an E-brake, not an emergency brake, a parking brake. Before you ever exit your vehicle you apply the parking brake. This idiot got himself killed by failing to use his parking brake.
How many kids die every year when someone leaves them in a hot car to gamble at a casino or run into Walmart? How many dogs have died the same way?
These deaths are almost all preventable by vehicle design. It might take a few hours of coding effort at most. Modern cars all have built-in microphones for handsfree. They could be used to detect an occupant in a parked vehicle and enforce safe limits to temperature, or sound an alarm. Of course, human nature being what it is, the clown-drivers would just use this as an excuse to stay longer in the casino and forget the car is running out of fuel.
Oh, I'm sorry sir, I thought you were referring to me, Mr. Wensleydale.
What, you select "Start" to shut down?
Oh, I'm sorry sir, I thought you were referring to me, Mr. Wensleydale.
What? Now you need a license to operate a horse?
Oh, I'm sorry sir, I thought you were referring to me, Mr. Wensleydale.
...would put this in the Science section of the site.
I can only hope.
I rented the same thing. It freaked me out.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Um, I thought the "Click Start to shut down" thing began with Windows 95?
Defending IP by destroying access to it? That makes sense, RIAA/MPAA. Go to the corner until you can play nice!
There is a Fight Club joke in here somewhere, but I haven't the heart to find it. Poor man. "'Star Trek' actor Anton Yelchin's SUV was recalled in April over rollaway risk" http://www.latimes.com/local/l...
What the hell?
Fuel shouldn't be a problem: the car should detect the temperature's too high and the occupants are in danger, and automatically open all the windows. As long as the battery is barely working, this will work.
Yeah, I ran into this in a recent Chrysler 200 rental as well. And to make matters worse, they mount it up on the dash, just below the similarly-sized rotary volume control for the stereo. Utterly moronic.
Sad outcome.
If he had a Tesla it may not have happened since opening the driver's door at low or zero speed puts the electric parking brake on (and it will stay on after the door is closed unless drive or reverse are selected) and there are some anti collision systems that prevent those sort of low speed impacts too (saved my dog from being run over once). It seems those will also be present on the new affordable model due in a couple of years.
RIP